Cambridge Gardens, New South Wales

Cambridge Gardens Sydney, New South Wales
Population	2,038 (2011 census)
• Density	2,754/km2 (7,130/sq mi)
Established	1981
Postcode(s)	2747
Area	0.74 km2 (0.3 sq mi)
Location	54 km (34 mi) west of Sydney CBD
LGA(s)	City of Penrith
State electorate(s)	Londonderry Penrith
Federal Division(s)	Lindsay
Suburbs around Cambridge Gardens: Cranebrook Llandilo Llandilo Penrith Cambridge Gardens Werrington Downs Penrith Cambridge Park Cambridge Park

Cambridge Gardens is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Cambridge Gardens is located 54 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Penrith and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.

Cambridge Gardens is a relatively new suburb, having only been gazetted in 1981. It was formerly part of the suburb of Cambridge Park.

Prior to European settlement, what is now Cambridge Gardens was home to the Mulgoa people who spoke the Darug language. They lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle governed by traditional laws, which had their origins in the Dreamtime. Their homes were bark huts called 'gunyahs'. They hunted kangaroos and emus for meat, and gathered yams, berries and other native plants. Shortly after the arrival of the First Fleet in Australia in 1788, an outbreak of smallpox decimated the local indigenous communities and made it easier for settlers to dispossess them of their land.

The first land grant in the area was made in 1831 to Phillip Parker King, son of the Governor Phillip Gidley King. It became part of the Werrington estate belonging to his sister Mary Lethbridge and was run as a farm until the 1880s when the estate was subdivided into smaller farms. This area was renamed Cambridge Park. In 1978, a second primary school was established in Cambridge Park and given the name Cambridge Gardens Public School. Three years later, the name was adopted for the surrounding area and the suburb of Cambridge Gardens was born.

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